元
yuán HSK1

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元 yuán
yuan nounmeasure word
The basic unit of currency in China and some other countries; also used for "dollar" in names like 美元 měi​yuán.

他欠我五元钱。

tā qiàn wǒ wǔ yuán qián.

He owes me five yuan.

basic noun
(bound form) basic; fundamental; constituent; such as in 元素 yuán​sù
unit nounadjective
(bound form) a constituent part; unit
first noun
(bound form) first; primary; original; such as in 元旦 yuán​dàn
chief noun
(bound form) chief; principal; leading; such as in 元首 yuán​shǒu
era noun
(literary) era; the first year of a reign
Yuan (dynasty)
The Yuan Dynasty (1279-1368).
Yuan (surname)
A Chinese surname.
variable
(math.) an unknown; a variable
head
(literary) human head; pate
eon
(geology) eon

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Frequency
Character
Written text
370th most common 602.0 per million
Movie subtitles
702nd most common 187.1 per million appears in 44% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
58.0 per million appears in 13% of films
Written text
1464.7 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 3
HSK 3.0
Level 1
Strokes
4
Unicode
U+5143

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)